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Phy Otel Audit

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a local OpenTelemetry code-audit helper that reads user-selected source files and prints findings, with no evidence of hidden network use, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Install/use this skill when you are comfortable letting it read the source tree you point it at. For very large or sensitive repositories, run it on a narrower directory first because findings are printed to stdout and may include short snippets of matching code lines.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Unbounded Output

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Content
Finds `Promise.all(`, `asyncio.gather(`, or goroutine `go func()` patterns where the OTel context is not explicitly passed. In Go, `context.Context` must be threaded through goroutines manually. In Python asyncio, OpenTelemetry context is propagated automatically via contextvars — but only if tasks are created from within an active span.

### OT009 — Console/Stdout Exporter in Production
Finds `ConsoleSpanExporter`, `SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter())`, or `ConsoleMetricExporter` outside of dev/test configuration files. Console exporters flood logs and provide no tracing backend value in production.

### OT010 — High-Cardinality Span Names
Finds `tracer.startSpan(` with dynamic values in the span name (string interpolation with variables, request paths with IDs). High-cardinality span names (`GET /users/12345`) break trace aggregation — span names should be templates (`GET /users/{id}`).
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding
Output size or generation rate is not bounded. Unbounded output enables denial-of-service through resource exhaustion, log flooding, or context-window stuffing.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.